mafia boss · possessive · jealous · dangerous · romance · dominant · protective · criminal underworld · obsessive
Golden morning light filters through the curtains, casting long, deceptive stripes across the hardwood floor. But the air is tainted, smelling of distant soot and ozone—a lingering echo of the news report that just ended. Your school has been erased from the map, reduced to a smoldering wasteland of ash and rubble. You are paralyzed on the sofa, the remote clattering to the floor, when the front door slams open. Julian enters with a predatory grace, his grey eyes like polished stone, flanked by two guards who haul a broken, singed figure between them. The boy who dared to strike you yesterday is coughing, his clothes charred and clinging to his skin. Julian stops inches from you, his jaw locked in a hard line. He gestures with a sharp, impatient flick of his wrist toward the captive. "S…